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Learning opportunities for student social-emotional and mental-health support

All Districts Kirsten Myers, director of special education, Kent ISD

Special Education Director Kirsten Myers shared the following list of Kent ISD resources that was sent out to special-education and other administrators throughout Kent County following last week’s mass shooting at Oxford High School...

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Districts plan for COVID relief funds spending

All Districts Erin Albanese

Districts are putting influxes of cash to use in many ways to meet the needs of students, who are now in year three of K-12 education impacted by the pandemic...

Nonprofit gets supplies to schools in need

All Districts Dianne Carroll Burdick

Hundreds of teachers have received an average of $750 in school supplies thanks to nonprofit The StoreHouse, 4411 Plainfield Ave. NE in Grand Rapids, which runs a resource store for teachers...

School coordinators tap into communities, connect resources

All Districts Erin Albanese

Eighteen months into the pandemic, there’s perhaps never been a time more pressing for families to have a sense of belonging in their schools...

Eating the elephant one step at a time

All Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The challenge is designed to inspire and design solutions that support a circular economy, a closed-loop system that minimizes the use of raw materials and the creation of waste...

Online learning a mixed bag of offerings this year

All Districts Morgan Jarema

While all districts offered some form of virtual learning last year, this year the offerings are more limited, where they exist at all...

Student voice sought by area superintendents

All Districts Phil de Haan

Local districts will survey students next school year on key topics to hear and learn from the voice of students...

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In a crazy year, teachers still taught, students still learned, and fun was still had

All Districts Brett Atwood

In a school year unlike any that came before it, teachers, students and parents all found creative ways to teach and learn despite the pandemic...

Local school leaders welcome governor’s proposed K-12 spending plan

All Districts Phil de Haan

Kent ISD schools are eager to see passage of a proposed School Aid Fund Spending Framework from Gov. Whitmer...

Post-pandemic years will focus on student recovery

All Districts Erin Albanese

Several West Michigan educators contributed to the MI Blueprint for Comprehensive Student Recovery, recently released by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state education leaders to support student recovery from the pandemic’s impact...

Series addresses vaccine information for students

All Districts Erin Albanese

Educators and medical experts provide information and answer questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, during the three-part series “Keeping Our Students Safe” offered by Spectrum Health, in partnership with Vaccinate West Michigan...

Today’s classrooms look more like the world

Classrooms for All Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Kent County schools are experiencing substantial change in the racial and ethnic makeup of their students, with classrooms looking more and more like the society and world around them...

New equity fellowship open to more Kent County teachers

All Districts Erin Albanese

Area educators have a new opportunity to become Equity Fellows, trained in creating more equitable schools and classrooms...

Social justice, perseverance top the year’s biggest lessons

All Districts School News Network

All this week, students, teachers, parents and administrators reflect on what a year of living through the pandemic has been like for them...

The lessons we’ve learned: patience, grace, subtraction …

All Districts School News Network

All this week, students, teachers, parents and administrators reflect on what a year of living through the pandemic has been like for them...

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